Tutorials, guides, and deep dives on web scraping, AI agents, and data extraction. Everything you need to build agents that see the web.
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Complete PHP scraping guide. cURL, Guzzle, Symfony DomCrawler, Goutte, Panther, concurrent scraping, Laravel integration, and when to use a web scraping API.
How AI-powered web scraping works, three approaches compared (LLM+HTML, vision models, purpose-built APIs), when to use it, and complete code examples. The future of web data extraction.
The complete JavaScript scraping guide. Cheerio, Puppeteer, Playwright, Crawlee, Axios — every tool, compared. Concurrent patterns, stealth, and when to use an API.
Complete Cheerio tutorial for Node.js. jQuery-style selectors, DOM traversal, concurrent scraping, production-ready patterns, and when to upgrade to Puppeteer or an API.
Complete Puppeteer tutorial for Node.js. Headless Chrome, selectors, waiting strategies, stealth mode, network interception, puppeteer-cluster concurrency, and production-ready patterns.
Master async web scraping with httpx. HTTP/2, connection pooling, concurrent scraping with asyncio, proxy rotation, retry logic, and production-ready patterns.
Master the Requests library for web scraping. HTTP methods, sessions, headers, proxies, authentication, rate limiting, concurrent scraping, and production-ready patterns.
Complete Scrapy tutorial. Spiders, CSS/XPath selectors, items, pipelines, middleware, JavaScript rendering with scrapy-playwright, deployment, and production tips.
Master HTML parsing with BeautifulSoup 4. CSS selectors, DOM navigation, table extraction, pagination, login handling, and production-ready scraper patterns.
Complete Selenium web scraping tutorial. Setup, headless Chrome, explicit waits, pagination, login handling, undetected-chromedriver, proxy rotation, and production-ready scraper patterns.
Complete Playwright web scraping tutorial. Setup, JS rendering, stealth mode, infinite scroll, authentication, proxy rotation, and when to use an API instead.
10 proven techniques to avoid getting blocked while web scraping. Covers proxy rotation, TLS fingerprinting, CAPTCHA solving, browser stealth, and why APIs eliminate the problem entirely.
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